COLLISIONS WITH ICEBERGS.

SOME KNOWN CASUALTIES.

Concordia, collided with an iceberg m the Straits of Belle Isle m- August, 1899, and 'had her bow very badly stove m. John Rutledge, collided with an iceberg 1856, went down, many lives lost. Port Chalmers, 1895. Deva, barque, 1877, lost bowsprit and gear. '.'■.■; . ' Columbia (Anchor Line), collided with iceberg off Sable Island, abdut.gjOQ .miles from Cape Race ,• bow damaged, forepeak filled with water ? several .passengers were injured. j / Canadian (Allan Line), struck a field of ice off Belle . Isle and foundered ; j 35 lives lost, 1861. ! Other vessels which have suffered j are :—. Kronsprinz Wilhelm ; Wellington, ship; Arizona, 1879; Montcahri, jbarque, I 1880; Rotterdam, 1896; Isabel, 1881 ;J Knight Bachelor, 1896; John' Bright, 1896; Furbor, 1897; Addington, 1898; Concordia, 1899; City of Berlin, 1900; Gratia, 1900; Hedwig, 1903; Portia, 1892; Anchoria; Grand Lake, 1899; Alderney, 1899; Hatasu, 1900; Gascoyne> 1898 ; Arizona, 1879 ; Montcalm, barque, 1880 ; John Rutledge, Atlantic mail, 1854 ; Anglo-Peruvian, 1906; Lake Champlin, 1909 ; Nairnshire, 1897 ; Vicksberg, 1875; Notting Hill, 1883; Gloucester City, 1883; lowa, 1891; Moldavia, 1896. In the case of the steamer Arizona, she struck on an iceberg whilst going full speed m a fog. Her bows were stove m for some 30ft, but the smoothness of the sea and the strength of her watertight compartments enabled her to reach St. John's, Newfoundland, m safety, 1879. The Naronic was. one of those boats whose fate the insolence of the sea keeps secret. She left the Mersey fully-laden for New York, and weeks later ', the first whisper of disaster came sifting m from the Atlantic. One of her life-boats was found drifting bottom up on the water. The same, day another lifeboat was found, and then, five months later, a third was picked up. All were empty. There was much speculation as to now the Naronic met her fate, and "men who read the rebus- of the sea were of opinion that she had -been overwhelmed by a mighty wave, and dropped m the sea like a plummet. SIZES OF BERGS. On December 23rd, 1909, m 50 S 47 W, the Walden Abbey passed many bergs varying m height from 350 ft to In February, 1910, between iNew' Zealand and Cape Horn, the Inveiftay was close to several bergs, two of which were 1000 ft high. On September 16, 1910, the Footing Suez, an American sailing ship, passed many bergs between 54 S and 51 W and 49 S and 46 W, and a solid field of "ice, which was 50 miles m length. The sailing ship William P. Fry, m about the same position, was ' surrounded by. icebergs and field ice, which covered an area of 18 miles. The clipper Loch Torridon pnce actually sailed 50 miles along the side of an ice island before being able to round its extremity. Nearly the whole of the exceptionally long icebergs of the South are passed by ships soon after rounding Cape Horn, m the homeward, trip m the South Atlantic. Between December, 1854, and April, 1855, a hook-shaped ice island acted as a trap south-east of the Cape of Good Hope for sailing vessels bound to the Antipodes. Its longer side stretched 50. miles without a break; its shorter side was 40 miles long, and between these two promontories of ice was a capacious bay quite 40 miles across. Several ships were embayed and at least one was lost with all hands. They entered this cul de sac with a fair wind under the supposition that there was an opening at the further end, and failed to beat back into the open sea and safety. £f v., (Continued on Page 7.)